Spill the beans... on which TV ads convinced you?

jenniewb

I was just thinking I don't think I've been ever suckered in and bought something on the face of an advert- maybe its brought something to my attention but most adverts irritate every last cell in my body once I've had to watch them more then once. I find them invasive, hate that they are played louder then normal TV and hate even more the many that rip off decent tunes and replay rifts to sell their products.

Then I had a good long think....

I remembered being 6 or 7 years old and the "Secret Key" shoes that Clarkes used to sell for kids. The TV advert had a girl who dropped a key on the floor and trod on it then was wisked away to another fairy tail world. My friend/nextdoor neighbour and me campaigned BIG TIME to get a pair of these shoes, we had to prove we wouldn't scuff them by keeping our previous shoes in good nick -but not so much so they wouldn't wear out, we'd also be forever pointing out that our "big toe was right at the end of the shoe!" Eventually our mum's caved in and to our exitement agreed to getting us pairs.

They came with the key and the first thing we did on wearing them was to tread on the key to see if we could be whisked away also.....

I don't need to tell you the level of diappointment we felt on realising that insted of being far off in paradise we were infact still out in the shopping center in a certain part of London described by kids today as "dry".

I think maybe that scarred me for life: I learnt how to be cynical and how to hate adverts all in one rainy afternoon!

Alizarin

The only thing I've ever bought based on the power of an advert was my Motorola Defy phone (I'm very clumsy so needed a phone that I could drop in the bath/down the stairs without it breaking!)

I really wanted to get my car or home insurance through Compare The Market for the free meerkat toy when I first saw the advert. Unfortunately my quotes for both were much cheaper through Aviva and I couldn't justify the extra £200+ for a cuddly meerkat

sophlowe45

Plumjam wrote: »

Try Sainsbury's Revive. The 'Each tablet typically provides' is identical to Berocca and they're £2.20 for 20 tables and always on 3 for the price of 2. I find that they taste more like Berocca if I use about 250mls water and they dissolve really quickly.

thanks i tend use Superdrug own brand, ingredients looked virtually the same to mem will check out Sainsburys ones too.

Coopdivi

This one:

“It’s all dirt and dust,
But don’t you get fussed,
The answer is easily found,
Remember:
One Thousand and One
Cleans a big, big carpet
For less than half a crown!

Unfortunately they don't make it any more.

kitschkitty

I saw an ad for Despicable me on DVD & bought it the next day. I had been thinking about getting it & the ad made me make my mind up (glad I did as it's a fun film & I didn't see it when it was in the cinema).

Oh and the Duck Fresh Disks ad encouraged me to buy them (when I saw them on offer) as I never used to use toilet freshener products, because I agreed with the point of the ad that rim block cages are horrid & dirty!

I found a few computer game ads encouraged me to buy the games (I'd already been thinking of getting) but I wouldn't solely base a purchase on the ad without checking online reviews first still though.

Have been encouraged by rather a few food & drink ads too, thanks M&S, Twix Fino, Whisper caramel, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Dominoes, Subway, Bulmers, Stella Cidre (all yum) Gu (rubbish)!

Flymonman

I remember the promises of the 70's adverts the sky filled with slender women in hot air balloons and romantic men breaking into ladies houses at night to leave chocolates.

Sublime_2

I tend to not buy a product if it keeps being plugged, as find most adverts annoying. The only ones tempting are for things I love already, usually booze, such as Baileys.

Justamum

Flymonman wrote: »

I remember the promises of the 70's adverts the sky filled with slender women in hot air balloons and romantic men breaking into ladies houses at night to leave chocolates.

I also remember the Robinson's barley water adverts where someone would say "I'm thirsty" and a butler would magically appear with a tray of nice cool barley water saying "I'm Robinson". I tried it. It never worked :rotfl:

Sulevia

I have to say TV adverts generally put me off buying the products. I remember years ago there was an advert for Bounty which I love and for months I wouldn't buy it because it was being advertised. It wasn't the advert, it was the fact it was being advertised.

ickle_yoda

I always craved cheese on toast agter seeing the Cathedral City ad but used JS own brand cheese!
I think I do that a lot - see something advertised then buy the cheaper, own-brand version.

Compare the Market ads did ake me go there first to compare insurance - home was cheapest via them but I'm off to Aviva for the car!

And as much as I hate the GoCompare idiot, I'm not going to avoid the site if I could possibly get cheaper insurance (but I didn't)